The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 135
Then the king fell on his knees and begged for mercy; and as he had in other respects been a good father, they forgave him.
Who acts: king, other respects, respects · What happens: fall, beg, have, be, forgive · To what, where: knees, king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, other respects, respects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begged | cc |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mercy | case |
| 11 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 respects | amod |
| 19 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 father | nsubj |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 father | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 father | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 father | amod |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forgave | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forgave | nsubj |
| 26 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forgave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the king | king's knees | then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | the king not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | other respects | in a good father | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forgive | past | respects | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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